An introduction to particle accelerators
From the linear accelerators used for cancer therapy in hospitals, to the giant atom smashers at international laboratories, this book provides a simple introduction to particle accelerators.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- History of accelerators
- Overview of the history
- Electrostatic accelerators
- The ray transformer
- Linear accelerators
- The cyclotron
- Focusing in cyclotrons
- Relativity limits cyclotrons
- The betatron
- The synchrotron
- Phase stability
- The first synchrotrons
- Weak focusing
- Strong focusing
- Fixed field alternating gradient
- Superconducting magnets
- Accelerators at work in medicine, industry, and research
- Moving from history to physics
- Transverse motion
- Description of motion
- Coordinate system
- Displacement and divergence
- The betatron envelopes
- Bending magnets and magnetic rigidity
- Focusing
- Quadrupole magnets
- The gutter analogy
- Alternating-gradient focusing
- Lattices
- Betatron envelopes
- The equation of motion
- Solution of Hill's equation
- Q value
- Matrix description
- Stability
- The Twiss matrix
- Transport matrices for the components of a period
- Regular FODO lattice
- Circulating beams
- Liouville's theorem
- Chains of accelerators
- Exceptions to Liouville's theorem
- Beam distribution in real space
- Acceptance
- Measurement of emittance
- Q measurement
- Measurement of Q by kicking
- Knockout and Q measurement
- Measurement by analysing the frequencies emitted by the beam
- Longitudinal dynamics
- Longitudinal motion
- Voltage per turn
- The r.f. frequency programme and controls
- Harmonic number
- Bunches and buckets
- Stability of the lagging particle
- Stationary buckets.